whats going on guys, carmine here and welcome to another Game of Thrones theory video, where
I go into several theories about characters and events in the series and try to shed some
light on them.
This time we'll be focusing on secret targaryens.
Characters who may or may not be related to the Targaryen family.
For those of you who've been with my channel for a fairly long time you guys know I've
never been a big fan of theory videos, however many of you have requested I do a couple of
them and I'm choosing this topic because I do find it fairly interesting and quite possible.
More so then Ned Stark being related to Luke Skywalker.
Now before I begin, full disclosure, these theories were not created by me.
It was made by several members of the online community and I am merely going to be explaining
them, breaking them down and giving my personal opinion, same with my previous theory videos.
With that out of the way, let's get on to it
The first candidate for Targaryen lineage is Tyrion Lannister.
Many of you who have only seen the television show may be confused about this one but those
of you who have read the novels know it all too well.
While Peter Dinkledge plays an amazing Tyrion, he is actually good looking and it's a bit
weird to see him and then go back and read about him in the novels because George does
paint tyrion as an ugly looking demon monkey.
This theory is solely relied on the fact that Aerys Targaryen The Second, also known as
the Mad King, raped Tywin's wife Joanna and the result was Tyrion.
If this was true, it would explain his appearance.
For example, in the book he has pale blonde hair which some would argue is a trait that
combines both Lannister and Targaryen hair colors and his eyes are mismatched.
one being green while the other is black.
This could be a result of mixed blood, which he probably would not have if Tywin was his
father.
Many Readers point to this, as well as Tywin's disdain for Tyrion as proof that he may be
the mad king's son.
Tywin has said before that he cannot prove Tyrion is his son which leads some people
to believe that Tywin has suspected the mad king's involvment in Tyrion's birth for a
long time.
Some of you are wondering...why would he raped Tywin's wife?
well it mainly comes back to jealousy and fear.
Tywin was hand of the king to aerys for a fairly long time and While he was the hand
of the king, everything in the realm ran smothly and everybody was content.
Some people said that it was Tywin that actually ran the seven kingdoms, which made aerys upset.
Tywin had also proven himself an amazing battle commander multiple times, most notably the
Reyne Rebellion.
As a result of this fear and jealousy, Aerys would often criticize Tywin for minor things
and he would loudly talk about his wife and how it was a shame the first night's tradition
was no longer the law....which was basically, whenever a peasant would marry, his lord would
get to sleep with the wife on their first night of marriage.
Same with Nobles and Kings.
So yes, you could say Aerys did find Tywin's wife, Joanna, very attractive and he would
also make insults to Tywin's daughter Cersei, as well as making his son Jaime, kingsguard.
While it may be an honor to serve in the kingsguard, Tywin would technically be robbed of his heir...since
kingsguard cannot hold lands or titles.
All that being said, could you really blame Tywin for suspecting that Tyrion may not be
his son?
some say it's slighty paranoia but I believe Tywin had a reason to question many things.
You're probably wondering...if Joanna was raped by the mad king, why didn't she say
anything?
well you could argue that maybe she didn't want to tell Tywin, just yet, for fear that
he would go to war with the crown.
Or maybe she hoped to sweep it under the rug and prayed that the child would be tywin's
instead.
Who knows but it is a fun theory to think about, that may be...Tyrion is Dany's brother
and may be the third head of the dragon.
Another possible Targaryen is Petyr Baelish.
This one struct me as odd but does make sense, in a way.
Petyr's family originally came from Bravos and that just maybe, his family were part
of House Blackfyre.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the blackfyres, they are an off-shoot of the
Targaryen family.
I'll go into more detail about them in another video later on, but the theory here is that....the
blackfyres, after their failed rebellion against the Targaryens....fled across the narrow sea
to essos and had children with people from the free cities.
After several decades, petyr's family moved to westeros and eventually Petyr uncovered
the truth about his family line early on and sought to climb the political ladder in the
seven kingdoms That way he could someday take over and not by force, like the previous blackfyres
tried to do.
Sometimes to path to victory requires less bloodshed and more patience.
Now...this theory, while a bit crazy, would be a nice twist and explain a lot of things.
And yes, even though the Blackfyres aren't technically in the Targaryen House, they do
have that blood.
Whose to say that, one of their members didn't sleep with some random whore, and that was
petyr's great great grandmother or something.
Maybe that valyrian steel dagger that Petyr has is actually a family heirloom passed down
to him by the blackfyres...it would also explain why Petyr may hate Varys so much, who, as
we all know is a Targaryen supporter.
Personally, I think it would be very interesting, Petyr is one of my favorite characters and
I would be interesting in seeing how he would react around danerys.
the last secret Targaryen is a bit of a stretch but once you start aligning the pieces...makes
a little bit of sense.Thiis theory is that Mance Rayder is Rhaegar Targaryen.
Now...I know this one sounds insanely stupid but let's hear it out After the battle of
the trident, Rhaegar is carried off by some of his most loyal soldiers and recovers in
an undisclosed location.
After several weeks, he discovers that his house has been destroyed and that his remaining
family as fled across the narrow sea.
In order to keep the liniage alive, he decides to go into hiding and travels north where
he joins the night's watch under a new name.
He realizes that no other House would support his claim unless he had many warriors backing
him so he decides to unite the wildlings to his false cause of bypassing the wall.
With Varys feeding him information, he is able to keep tabs on current events in the
seven kingdoms, which would make sense as to why mance rayder would decide to move when
the country was in civil war.
Eventually, Rhaeghar realizes that there is another threat beyond the wall and tries to
get his people across so they could reveal his identity and unite the people under the
Targaryen banner against the white walkers.
There is no major evidence behind this other than for his love of music.
Mance Rayder is known to be a talented musician and in the books, it is revealed that Mance
climbed the wall and snuck into winterfell disguised as a bard.
Do you guys remember that welcoming party in season 1 episode 1.
remember that feast where cersei and catelyn are sitting next to each other and what not?
well apparently...Mance Rayder was at the party.
this isn't a theory btw, this is in the books.
Mance says that he was at that party, singing a song about a man who steals the northmen's
daughter.
It would also make sense as to why Mance let Jon Snow live when Jon supposedly defected.
Overall, these Theories, while a bit crazy, do have some merit to them and are certainly
interesting.
My favorite being Petyr Baelish being a blackfire...but at the same time, anybody can argue that Ned
Stark is secretly a skywalker or something.
And if you're wondering why I didn't mention Jon Snow or the Fake Aegon...wel...those are
too obvious and I've already covered them in other videos.
I wanted to dish out something that you guys may not have heard too much about.
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thanks for watching, have a good one.